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Trilobites

from Miracle Strip by Matt Layne

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Trilobites

Mantra-humming cat
lies heavy in my lap,
vibrating universal contentment.
I draw in smoke from a hand-rolled
cigarette, dense and brown
as fresh turned soil.
I close my eyes and breathe out
a steady stream that
arbors purple grapes
just above our heads
and we reach up,
tantalized ...

The moon lay soft
on a pillow of cloud,
there was no cry heard
but a laugh.
Me, full of myth and wine,
and you, there,
stretched long on the blanket,
humming of comets and constellations.
You spiraled about me
like an ancient trilobite
and together we saw the beginning of life.

The air is layered thick around
with rhythm birthing rhythm
while unleaving leaves dance
dark and naked on the wall.
I roll there as you roll,
and drink deep the sound of you,
the sound of you, soft and quick,
like a cat's pink tongue curling
water from a glass.

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from Miracle Strip, released August 31, 2022

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Matt Layne Birmingham, Alabama

Poet, librarian, raconteur; Matt Layne has been poking hornet's nests and looking under rocks since he was knee-high to a peanut peg.
I reckon you oughta check him out.

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